Minnesota · statute · Minn. Stat. ch. 379 · 10 active provisions
Subdivision 1. Manner; petition; name. When a majority of the registered voters of any congressional township containing not less than 25 legal voters petition the county board to be organized as a town such board shall forthwith call an election on the question. If a majority of the vote in the township is in favor of…
The county board may alter the boundaries of towns, or partition any town among other towns within the county by attaching a part of one town to another, or by dividing one town and attaching the parts to other towns, or by forming a new town from the territory of one or more towns, or from territory not before include…
Before acting on any petition mentioned in section 379.02, the county board shall cause 30 days' posted notice of the time of hearing the same to be given within the bounds of the territory proposed to be partitioned, altered, or formed into a new town. Such notice shall include a copy of the petition, and be served on…
If such application is granted, the county board shall forthwith fix and determine the boundaries of such town or towns, and make and file with the county auditor a full report of its proceedings in the matter.
The first town meeting and election of officers in each new town shall be held as provided in sections 365.50 and 367.03, subdivision 1.
Each county auditor shall within 30 days after any such town is organized transmit by mail or appropriate digital technology to the secretary of state an abstract of such report, giving the name and boundaries of such town and record in a book kept for that purpose a full description of each such town. The secretary of…
In case of the division or partition of any town, the funds in its treasury and undistributed town taxes shall be apportioned to the town or towns to which the portions thereof shall be attached, or to the new town or towns established, to the extent the same are collected from the territory so attached or established…
If the commissioner of revenue, on comparing the abstracts of the reports from the several counties, finds that two or more towns have the same name, the commissioner shall transmit to the auditor of the proper county the name to be altered, and the county board shall, at its next meeting thereafter, adopt for such tow…
The board of county commissioners of any county in this state may change the name of any town within such county upon a petition signed by a number of the legal voters of such town equal to 55 percent of the votes cast in such town at the last preceding general election and the new name suggested in such petition shall…
Petition being granted, the board shall make a formal order to that effect, which shall be filed with the county auditor and thereupon the official name of such town shall be the one so adopted. The auditor shall within 20 days after any such change of name of town transmit by mail to the commissioner of revenue an abs…